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UNITED STATES PATENT EFICE,

WILLIAM G. ORISSEY, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO SEA BURY &JOHNSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y;

SULPHUR CANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,444, dated April 2,1889.

A plication filed November '19; 1888. serial in. 291,226. (ModL) T5 aZZwhom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM G= CRIssEY, bf East Orange, in the county ofEssex and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Disinfectants, of which the following is a specificationThis improvement particularly relates to disinfectants in the form ofcandles .The object of the improvement is to facilitate the burning of asulphur candle or a candle having sulphur as an ingredient.

The improvement consists in a candle having at the top a number of wicksextending transversely.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top view ofa candleembodying the improve- Fig.2 is avertical section of the same.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in bothfigures.

A designates the candle. It is composed of sulphur or compoundsincluding sulphur or analogous material. It is shown as of cylindricalform. The upper surface is shown as concave or hollowed out from theouter portion surface thereof. It will be seen that in the,

present instance these wicks are arranged at the concave portion of the'top of the candle,

and that the wicks are upturned at the outer as well as the inner ends.At the inner ends where the wicks are close together a wicking or tuftof fiber, O, is arranged and it occupies a position intermediate of theseveral wicks B. Fiber may be distributed throughoutthe material formingthe candle.

I have shown the candle as surrounded by a metal band, D, extendingslightly above its top surface, and this band as having com= bined withit a plate, E. WVhen both the band and plateare used, a box or case isformed.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A disinfectant candle comprising sulphur having wicks arrangedtransversely at the top, substantially as specified.

2. A disinfectant candle comprising sulphur having wicks arrangedradially at the top, substantially as specified. v

3. Asulphur candle having wicks arranged radially at the top and anintermediate wicking or tuft of fiber, substantially as specified.

4. A disinfectant candle comprising sulphur having at the top radialWicks embedded be tween their ends in the material of the candle, but.exposed at both ends, substantially as specified.

5. A disinfectant candle comprising sulphur having its top or uppersurface concaved from the outer wall toward the center and havingtransversely extending wicks, substantially as specified.

W. G. CRISSEY.

Witnesses:

FREDERICK EGNER, FRED W. EGNER.

